WeirdAlfan101: Glad I threw you for a loop. It's fun to do that. Not sure if your predictions are going to happen, tbh.
QueenAzulaThinksYourWorthless: So what I'm hearing is you're happy with the way things are going. Let's see if that trend continues.
SideshowJazz1: I can see the comparison to the London episode. Glad to address the Ezekiel thing. I mean, it's the last time we saw that as far as canon goes, so why not make that the end point. Happy to hear everything else satisfied you as well.
AnonBrowser: Glad to hear I improved the episode over the canon version. Yeah, it's kinda Chris and the producers' fault for not acknowledging the Ezekiel situation, and it's also Ezekiel's fault for not knowing when to give up when he lost the game. As for now, let's see what Sugar has up her sleeves for this next challenge.
Phenomenal Ultra Instinct: Hey, somebody had to do it, and since Cody was the last hero left on World Tour, he seemed like the logical choice. And it benefits him since Jasmine gave him her reward for speaking up. Ezekiel should recover in due time.
Nicky Haugh: Thank you as always.
LovelyLuly: Thanks for the additions to the differences list. Interesting thoughts on how the Dramarama versions grow up. I don't know about Rodney and Ella, I think they have a better chance than Rodney's other crushes turned out. And no, I won't be doing a Ridonculous Race: Cast Swap edition with Staci. I'd like to just focus on the main seasons, and I'm not sure much would change if Staci and her partner would compete, tbh.
Critica7: Yeah, the canon episode was awful. Thanks for your elimination order predictions.
That British Guy: Thanks, I think?
Guest: Meh, I hate zombies.
The Legendary Dragon Reaper: Thanks for understanding my point of view on All-Stars.
Derick Lindsey: Yeah, such a shame that happened to Topher. I think Sugar's scheme works because when you look at her, she seems like one of the last people you'd think capable of masterminding an elimination strategy. Things always seem to go that way when they're in the middle of reconnecting, don't they? Yeah, it was time for that plot to end, and since Topher showed up in Newfoundland, I just had to bring in Jerd for another bit. To answer your question, someone else would've been selected for Boney Island.
Acosta perez jose ramiro: Very true of Jasmine. Good observation.
SilentSinger948: Yeah, it was time for the feral plot to end. Also yeah, Topher did screw up and doom his game. Glad to know I could make Topher more dimensional in your eyes.
Joel Connell: Agreed, the gag had to be finished. Also, karma did a good job giving appropriate payouts last time.
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Episode 10- The Obsta-Kill Course
"Last time on Total Drama," Chris started to narrate over footage of the campers wandering through the tunnels, "we celebrated our one hundredth episode with a surprise guest appearance and a kidnapping of the hosty kind." Ezekiel was shown snarling, followed by the clip of him throwing the sack over Chris's body. "And I stayed strong," he continued to say despite a clip of him in a panic playing onscreen. When he was shown calling for help, annoyance entered his tone. "Hey! Who put that there?"
Clearing his throat as the recap continued, he said, "Alejandro found out Topher went against him to out Sugar's invincibility statue, and Sugar stirred the pot by suggesting it was Alejandro and Topher's fault that Sierra had left." Alejandro was shown reprimanding Topher, and then Sugar talking to Gwen before the kidnapping.
The clip of Chris calling for help over the toxic waste vat played again. "Okay, someone is so getting fired." Chef was then displayed eating ice cream worriedly as he watched Chris be held captive on the monitors. "Chef is a stress eater, Jasmine and Gwen freaked out, Jasmine saved me, and Topher got flushed." The wannabe host was last seen spinning down the giant toilet.
For a third time, Chris yelling for help appeared before the footage quickly cut to static.
"That is it!" Chris roared, the camera pulling back to show the recap had been played on the rolling monitor used to explain challenges and that Chris had unplugged it from in an outlet in the spa hotel's massage parlor with a severely irritated expression on his face. Once the offending clip was no longer seen, the host smiled. "Luckily, nothing gets me out of a bad mood faster than upping the ouch factor in a challenge."
Pointing to the camera recording him, he declared, "Stick around to see who goes down right here on Total Drama All-Stars!" As the traditional far shot of the island was displayed, Chris could be heard ordering, "Tell the editor to meet me at the Flush of Shame!"
That all turned to be a clip as the camera pulled back again to show Chef sitting in the monitor room, clicking the video off while chuckling.
(cue theme song)
The episode opened up on the spa hotel, zooming in on it and flashing inside to Cody walking through one of the halls.
"It was really nice of Jasmine to give me her spot in the hotel," he said to no one in particular. "I just wish I had someone else here with me. Being alone in this big place reminds me too much of my parents' house." As he passed a doorway, he stopped to peer inside. The cameras changed angles to show him looking in the monitor room Chef was just in. "Oh right, this is the room Chef showed us the other day. Sweet!" Grinning like a geek in a tech store, which was pretty close to the actual situation, he approached the desk with the keyboard and connected monitors he and the others had viewed in the previous episode. Curiously, there was a box of discs in cases sitting on the desk.
"I wonder if anybody would mind if I took a peek around here." He noticed the box of discs, and fingered through them, eventually picking out one. "Huh, this one's labelled Sugar Sabotage. Better take a look at this in case there's something we should be aware of." Popping the disc in a nearby slot, he pressed a key on the keyboard to start it up. The first thing to pop up on the computer screen was Sugar sneaking over to the girls' luggage in the middle of the night.
Cody squinted suspiciously at the girl on the screen. "What's she doing?"
He watched as Sugar opened Gwen's luggage and pulled out her diary, and the geek gasped audibly.
It was all there. The lever from the pancake challenge, making Sierra fall and drop her phone, new footage of Sugar stashing Gwen's diary in the mess hall's chimney, and Sugar sabotaging the boats from the regatta. After everything had been viewed, the screen went black and the disc popped out of the slot.
Taking it in his hand, Cody put the disc back in the case as a horror sting played in the background. "Gwen has got to see this."
Meanwhile, Jasmine and Shawn had taken to foraging for their next meal. At a bush, Jasmine picked a berry and examined it with her eye before deeming it safe enough to put in the woven basket she held in her other hand. She proceeded to pick a few more while Shawn did the same at a different berry bush several feet away with a small baggy. A light tune jingled as the camera caught Shawn's happy smile. The smile turned fonder when he twisted around to view Jasmine, who didn't notice he was staring. After a few seconds, he returned to picking, unaware that Jasmine had moved to look at him with a similar fond grin for the same amount of time as he spent before resuming her foraging.
(Confessional- Shawn)
"Jasmine and I have known each other for a year, and the whole time I only ever saw her as a friend," Shawn explained. Looking down, he scratched at his soul-patched chin thoughtfully. "Maybe that's because we were always hanging out with Sammy, who we were both friends with. But now that we had that argument and made up, it's like I'm seeing Jasmine from a new perspective." He gave a dismissive sweep of his hand for emphasis. "Before, I always considered romance a big distraction that could doom you in the zombie apocalypse, but now… could I really like Jasmine that much?" Shrugging, he looked to the audience beyond the camera for an answer.
(Confessional- Jasmine)
The extremely tall explorer took a berry from her basket, and tossed it into her mouth before she began to speak.
"Ever since I told my story to Shawn the other night, I can't stop considering a crush on the guy," she admitted. Jasmine took another berry, and ate it. "Is it possible that Shawn could very well be the first guy I ever liked that would consider the notion of going out with me? Maybe. But I have to try and concentrate. This is the final six, and we're really entering crunch time now. I can't get too distracted, or even distracted, period." Reaching for a third berry, she tossed it into her mouth and swallowed.
Back at the loser cabin, all seemed peaceful until a loud fart pierced the air.
The viewpoint cut inside to Gwen, who had been writing in her diary, to gag while plugging her nose with her writing hand.
"Ugh, Sugar!" Gwen complained.
Zooming out, Sugar was seen eating a head of cabbage. "It wasn't me," she defended between bites and motioning to the vegetable, "it was this thing I got out of Chef's kitchen. Everything outta there makes things in your tummy go wonkier than my little brother when he's been eating paste." She let out another, less loud but still putrid fart. "Cabbage again."
"Ugh," Gwen grimaced, gathering her stuff and getting off her bunk bed. "That's it. I'm letting this place air out." Shoving her way out the cabin door, she glanced back at her roommate and muttered, "Even though Owen's been gone for days, it's like he's still here." While her attention was elsewhere, her foot caught a broken floorboard on the porch, and she was sent tumbling down the front steps. "Whoa! Oof!"
She laid on the ground, limbs sprawled out and her diary off to the side, groaning. At that point, Cody came running over.
"Gwen, you okay?" He asked, helping her up.
"Yeah, I'm good. Just tripped on the stairs." Gwen dusted her hands on her skirt, and bent over to pick up her diary.
"Great," Cody said hurriedly, looking around for prying ears and eyes, "because there's something I need to tell you. It's about Sugar. She-."
"Attention, maggots!" Chris's voice was heard, and the pair shot looks up at the loudspeakers. "Last one to the meeting area in the forest drops and gives me fifty! Hup hup hup!"
Gwen sighed, rolling her eyes. "Today is going really great so far."
Cody put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Gwen, focus. I found something important-."
Sugar slammed the cabin door open, throwing her cabbage aside.
"Alright, you two heard the guy! Let's move it!" Sugar shouted rather cheerfully, joining the two campers at the base of the steps and pulling them towards the woods by their arms.
By the time the campers found Chris, most of them were panting from the rush.
"At ease, maggots. It's about time you got here," Chris greeted like a drill sergeant, fittingly wearing his military hat from the war movie challenge in the second season. "I was almost getting bored." Looking past them, he saw Alejandro arrive with Chef in tow, the latter wearing his outfit from the basic training challenge in the first season along with his arm still in a cast and sling. "Glad you could join us, Alejandro. You know the deal- last one here equals push-ups there."
"Of course I'm going to be the last one here. I was exiled on Boney Island," defended Alejandro irritably.
"You mean…" Chris began to say before pulling out his favored red megaphone. "I was exiled on Boney Island, sir!"
Rolling his eyes, Alejandro decided not to argue further and got down to do the exercise.
(Confessional- Alejandro)
"So, I'm back to doing things on my own just like the first time. It's for the best. Topher has shown me that there's nobody you can rely on to follow the plan except yourself. Now it's only a matter of getting the others to keep me on the island over that falsa Sugar. I will not be going home before her, or my name isn't Alejandro Burromuerto," vowed the charmer.
Evidently, Chris was eavesdropping because his chuckles rang out over the loudspeakers. "Tell them what your last name means."
"It's a very respected name where I come from," Alejandro growled while looking away from the camera. "Very respected."
"And, fifty!" The charmer finished his set, and stood up, dusting his hands off. "Didn't break a sweat." He walked over, and joined the other members of the final six for Chris to explain the challenge.
"Listen up, worms," Chris said in a poor imitation of a drill sergeant. "Chef's boot camp challenge in season one was tough. This is season five; things are about to get a whole lot more hurty with the McLean Obsta-Kill Course, patent pending!" He pointed at something off to the side with finger guns.
The camera panned right to a field of tires laid over mud. "To win this full-on race challenge to avoid elimination, and avoid getting the flush- first, you'll have to conquer the Fun Tires." Next shown was a wooden wall with four ropes of distinctive color- red on the left, black, brown, and then white on the far right. "Get through them, and you're onto the Rope Slope. Some ropes are less reliable than others. So choose wisely, but not too wisely. That will spoil the fun for me." Specifically, the camera zoomed in on the black rope, showing a frayed electric cord that if touched in the wrong place could shock somebody. Next to be shown was a set of ladders not unlike those found on a playground built over a small pond. "Next, the Snapping Bars!"
"Why are they called the Snapping Bars?" Jasmine inquired.
"Oh, you'll see," the host answered cryptically as the footage moved onto a seemingly normal field littered with large boulders and frequent bushes. "Then it's onto a pleasant run through the Duck and Cover. Come out of that alive, and you're in for a real treat."
Shawn blew a disbelieving raspberry, and glanced at Chris. "Piece of cake, which I know how to bake by the way."
"Ohhh," Chris teased in a challenging tone, making Shawn's face drop. "In that case…"
Shawn groaned miserably. "Aw man…"
"Everyone has to wear a heavy pack for the whole challenge!" Chris declared.
With his arm still busted, Chef directed a pair of interns to drop six identical backpacks, just like the packs the contestants wore in the mine the previous season, at the final six's feet. Shawn flinched as the majority complained to him for speaking up while Cody merely facepalmed at the turn of events.
"Abandon your pack, and you'll face a brutal penalty," Chris warned, smiling throughout. He chuckled to himself. "Seriously, this is going to be awesome."
Without any further instructions being given, the campers moved to claim a backpack. Alejandro, boasting a confident smirk, picked one up from the pile first. Behind him, Jasmine and Shawn frowned at his back.
"This seems straightforward enough," Jasmine remarked to her alliance partner. "All we have to do is cross the finish line first to prevent him from getting immunity, and then we can vote him off."
"It only sounds easy, but trust me, as someone who has constructed obstacle courses like this at home to train for the apocalypse, there's bound to be a few surprises in there that we won't like," advised Shawn with the point of a cautionary index finger.
When Alejandro was once again shown in the frame, his new pack on his shoulders, Sugar walked over and shoved him aside, bending over to claim a backpack for herself. Feeling the pack's weight, she sent a scowl in Jasmine and Shawn's direction that they didn't appear to notice.
(Confessional- Sugar)
"Shoot! There's no way I'll be able to win this challenge and save my keister!" Sugar complained, her hands curled into fists at her hips. "Stupid Shawn saying that stuff about cake. Like, how can he be so dumb? There ain't any cake anywhere near this dang course." She uncurled one fist to raise a finger to her chin thoughtfully. "I should be okay this time, though. Everybody hates Alejandro like I do, so they'll be gunning for him this whole race. I'll probably do some sabotage to help make that happen for sure."
"She did what?" Gwen's tone went icy when the footage turned to her and Cody putting on their packs.
Cody held out his hands pleadingly. "It's true! I saw it on tape. If we win this challenge, I'll show you."
"Okay, but you realize what this means? I accused Heather of something she didn't do, and she was right. Ugh!" Gwen stomped a foot in anger. "I can't believe that someone like Sugar played me like that. Look at her." She gestured off-screen with a hand.
The camera panned over to Sugar, who waited for the challenge to start by picking at her belly button crud.
"She really doesn't look like the type, but that's what made her trick work," Cody pointed out.
"Man, I feel so burned that I want to go over and tell her off right now." The loner turned to do so, but Cody grabbed her arm.
"Just calm down. I know your diary is really important to you, but yelling at her now isn't a good idea. If she wins the challenge, she could put a target on you." He reasoned, cooling her anger. "Let's just get through this challenge, and try to convince Jasmine and Shawn to vote her out."
Gwen frowned, huffing as she crossed her arms, yanking the one away from Cody in the process. "Fine. But waiting to give her an earful is going to be hard."
A flash forward cut to the final six at the starting line. Chris stood off to the side with his megaphone.
"On your marks, get set," Chris announced as they got into position, "go!" He pulled out his air horn, and signaled for the challenge to begin.
Jasmine and Shawn, the fastest two players, were the first to reach the Fun Tires. Everything started out nicely, so Shawn began to feel confident about his chances.
"This is easy!" he remarked.
Jasmine ran beside him until a wooden beam shot up in front of her when she stepped on a particular tire, yelping in surprised pain.
Hearing the scream, Shawn briefly looked back at his crush. "Huh?" Then he felt himself fall into a hole. "Whoa!" The conspiracy nut gasped when he momentarily fell out of view. The camera zoomed out to show he had somehow fallen waist deep into a tire with one foot stuck out of it in an uncomfortable angle. "Ow! My foot is touching my face!"
Around him, other traps like another wooden beam and a spring-loaded boxing glove popped up at random intervals.
"You dung beetles didn't think Colonel McLean would give you a straight-ahead challenge, did you?" Chris teased over the loudspeakers strung along the course.
On another section of the Fun Tires, Cody and Gwen ran in an area where geysers seemed to spew water up around them.
"Gwen!" Seeing a geyser starting to erupt, Cody grabbed Gwen by the arm and pulled her back.
"Thanks! Behind you!" Spinning around, Gwen saw another geyser and brought Cody closer to her to avoid him getting caught in it.
Cody grinned thankfully at her. "Glad you have my back."
"Same to you," Gwen replied with a smile of her own.
Alejandro, who had fallen victim to a trap or two further back, noticed them having a moment and frowned.
(Confessional- Alejandro)
"It is a surprise to see Gwen and Cody have gotten this far once again," he commented, still wearing the pack from the challenge. "But to see them working together? That is even more of a surprise since I recall Gwen finding Cody to be a nuisance."
The charmer caught up to the pair. "Greetings, old amigos. How goes the challenge?"
"Ugh," Cody groaned while rolling his eyes and dodging one of the boxing glove traps, "go away, Al."
"Wait," Gwen interrupted, "Alejandro, you're planning to get rid of Sugar, right?"
"That I am," Alejandro confirmed with a nod of his head.
"Then we're after her too. You see, she-."
Cody's eyes went wide while he was still looking ahead, and he seized Gwen by the wrist, pulling her down with him. "Duck!"
Before Alejandro could inquire why, a tire slammed into his body.
"Hah! Take that, Ale-dummy!" Sugar cackled in front of them, twin traps of fire cropping up beside her, and she pointed at him in humiliation. Still laughing at her own joke, she continued the challenge.
"She's getting away. Come on!" Cody got back up on his feet and ran to pursue, leaving behind Gwen and Alejandro, the latter stuck in another hole trap like the one Shawn got caught in.
Looking back at the fallen charmer, Gwen rose up. "Sorry, Alejandro. We'll help get her out." She went to join Cody, being mindful to avoid a wooden hammer trap and another trap that appeared to involve nearly getting bitten by a beaver.
Jasmine and Shawn recovered from their traps, and reached the end of the Fun Tires, moving onto the second obstacle.
Chris and Chef drove up beside the Fun Tires' end in their favored jeep.
"Jasmine and Shawn are in the lead, and are heading for the Rope Slope. This ought to be good," Chris chuckled, as if he knew some secret they didn't.
Jasmine went for the most normal-looking rope on the far right while Shawn took the brown rope beside her.
"Race you to the top," Jasmine cheerfully challenged her friend, beginning to quickly scale the slope.
"You're on!" Shawn began to climb, and then paused. "Wait a second." Closely sniffing his rope, he furrowed his brow. "The heck is this rope made of? It smells rank."
"Haha, looks like Shawn figured out his rope is made of dog hair," Chris updated over the loudspeakers.
The conspiracy nut blinked upon hearing the announcement. "Wait. That's what this is made of. How'd he even collect this much hair for the rope?" Shaking his head, he scrambled to catch up to Jasmine.
Sugar was next to reach the Rope Slope, and she went for the left-most rope, the red one. She began to climb when she too smelled her rope.
"Is this… licorice?" She took a second whiff to confirm, and when she was sure of her guess, she grinned. "How about some really delicious sabotage?" The pageant queen proceeded to bite into her rope and start eating it as she climbed further up the ramp.
Gwen and Cody arrived, and while Gwen took the dog hair rope, Cody took the black one.
"This one seems really sturdy. It should hold," Cody observed after giving it a tug. Once he settled on his choice, he began the climb.
"Just hurry, Cody. Sugar's at the top now." Gwen informed him, checking the top of the slope.
Shawn had just jumped over to the other side of the ramp while Sugar seemed to struggle pulling herself over the top.
"I'm coming!" Cody pulled himself up, and didn't notice when he put his hand over an exposed part of the sparking wire inside the rope. The geek jittered as electricity pulsed through him.
Chris chuckled once more. "Looks like someone found my favorite rope- the zapper."
Alejandro ran past the host and Chef, stopping to observe the bit of licorice rope that Sugar didn't eat. He then stared at the three ropes left, and gazed upward.
"Gwen's on the brown one, and Cody seems to have selected one with electricity. Perhaps the most normal-looking rope would be the wisest decision," he concluded. He grabbed the same rope Jasmine had chosen, and began to climb.
Cody hung where he had gotten shocked, smoke visibly floating off of him, and soon Alejandro reached his level.
"Pick your ropes carefully next time, amigo," Alejandro advised nonchalantly as he made his way up, leaving Cody in last place. As he left, Cody twitched when he got shocked a second time.
Back at the base of the ramp, Chris declared, "Will anyone survive the Obsta-Kill Course? Will Cody become a human hot dog? Will I laugh no matter what? Yes to that, but for all the other answers? Stay tuned to Total Drama All-Stars!"
When the show returned from its break, the first thing to appear was the Snapping Bars, where viciously snapping turtles appeared to be lurking in the pond below the ladder. Jasmine was already halfway across, trying to avoid her long legs getting bitten by the turtles.
"Jasmine is the first to reach the Snapping Bars, followed by Shawn and Sugar," updated Chris as Shawn and Sugar began their crossing.
When a turtle jumped particularly high, Shawn let out a yelp and swung his legs up to the bars.
"I'm starting to understand why these are called the Snapping Bars," he remarked. "And it is not funny!"
Seeing the turtle's attempt, Sugar decided on a different course of action. "Yeah," she drawled flatly, "between that and maybe falling into the water and ruining my makeup, I'm gonna go over instead of under." Seizing a loophole that Chris didn't mention, she climbed on top of the ladder and started crawling her way across.
Noticing Sugar's tactic, Shawn facepalmed. "Why didn't I think of that?"
Alejandro and Gwen reached the obstacle next, and while Gwen went the same way Jasmine and Shawn were going, Alejandro took note of Sugar's way along with the fact Jasmine was almost done, and decided Sugar's method would be quicker. He climbed overhead, and hand walked his way across the bars speedily. When he came across Sugar, he performed a front flip over her, and continued hand walking to the other side.
"Oh no you don't, you big showoff," Sugar protested and reached out to grab his wrist, yanking it out from under him.
"Gah!" Alejandro went wide-eyed at his loss of balance, and fell forward onto his back, his pack thankfully cushioning his fall.
Beneath them, Shawn and Gwen found their path stalled because Alejandro's pack made the bars inaccessible to grip.
"Oh great," Gwen griped with an annoyed frown. "Now what?"
"I'm going to make a jump for it. Just have to swing hard enough." Shawn did as he said he was going to do, and swung himself back and forth, taking care not to hit Gwen, and on his final swing, he let go of the bars, and reached the end. "Yeah!"
Jasmine, who had been at the end already, clapped her hands. "Nice job, Shawn!" Turning on her heel, she moved onto the next obstacle.
Chris and Chef rode up in their jeep as Jasmine left. "Jasmine still holds the lead, and Shawn is close on her trail."
"I'm not sure if I can jump that far," Gwen said, and then looked back up to the two competitors blocking her way.
Finally getting the wind back in him, Alejandro managed to stand up and decided to run the rest of the way. Shawn had just gotten off the Snapping Bars when Alejandro jumped down in front of him, making him flinch.
"Hey, no fair!" Sugar called out indignantly.
"Nobody said you only had to use your hands to get across," Alejandro pointed out with a cheeky smile, turning to move on. Shawn frowned behind his back, and ran after him.
"He's got a point," Gwen agreed as she passed underneath the pageant queen. Grumbling, Sugar continued crawling along, not confident in her heels being able to walk on the bars.
Cody finally reached the bars, and climbed on. "Hey, wait up!" As soon as he got onto the second and third bars, he gasped for strength. "Either that rope shocked all the energy out of me, or this pack is just really heavy… no!" The geek lost his grip, and he fell into the pond, where he was immediately attacked by the turtles.
"Cody!" Gwen shouted in concern, looking back when she heard he had arrived.
Managing to get away from the turtles, but not without more than a few bites, Cody swam to the other side of the pond, and hauled himself out of the water, collapsing on his belly.
"Are you okay?" asked Gwen, who hopped down from the end of the bars to check on him.
"I'll be fine. I'll catch up. Just go," Cody told her as Sugar finished the bars and jumped to the ground before running onto the next part. "Sugar can't win immunity."
"Okay, if you're sure." Gwen hurried away to make sure Sugar didn't get too far ahead.
At the Duck and Cover, Alejandro found that it was mysteriously vacant of campers.
"Que? Where did those survival junkies go?" He looked around, wondering. "They were ahead of me."
"We're right here." Shawn answered, and he along with Jasmine both popped up from behind a large boulder.
"What are you doing back there?" Alejandro inquired, raising an eyebrow.
"Mate, it's called Duck and Cover for a reason," Jasmine pointed out. "And we're ducking so we don't find out."
"Also, we don't appreciate being called survival junkies," Shawn added with a point of his finger.
"My apologies. Now, while I've got you here, may I attempt to convince you in voting out Sugar tonight?" Alejandro said.
"Why should we?" Jasmine narrowed her eyes, folding her arms over her chest. "You're the biggest threat to the game left. You'd have to be a fool not to go after someone like you."
"Because, as much as I dislike downplaying myself, the biggest threat in the game left is actually Sugar."
Shawn snorted beside Jasmine. "Yeah, right."
"Think about it. Nobody with Sugar's… character ever gets this far unless people underestimate them. Not to mention she managed to find the invincibility statue and keep it hidden until she had an opportunity to play it without receiving blame."
Jasmine and Shawn shared a glance before looking at the charmer once more.
"You may have a point," Shawn conceded. "But for all we know, this is just another trick of yours to reach the finals." He and Jasmine looked around, and then jogged away from their hiding spot further into the Duck and Cover's area.
"It could be that," Alejandro admitted, following them. "But, I wouldn't admit that if that was the case. This is a genuine warning. Have you missed how she's attacked Topher and me? Gah!"
Suddenly, a leech struck his forehead. As the leech swelled, Alejandro fell to his knees weakly.
Jasmine cringed. "That ain't right."
"Forgot to mention," the three campers looked over and saw Chris and Chef afar, the former once again wielding his megaphone. Beside him, Chef held one of the paintball guns from the leech challenge earlier in the season. Even with his injured arm, he was able to use the weapon effectively. "This is Chef's favorite place to unwind with some leechball target practice. So you better duck, and you better find cover." For emphasis, Chef shot two leeches. Both Jasmine and Shawn yelped upon impact.
"I guess we found out why we should be ducking," Jasmine remarked, pulling off the leech that struck her.
"Less chit-chat, more cover!" Shawn yelled, tugging away his own. He yelped as he dodged to the side, allowing Alejandro to be hit with more leeches.
"Madre mida," Alejandro groaned, only to be hit with more that covered his face.
Jasmine and Shawn dove behind the nearest boulder, narrowly avoiding being hit. When he no longer heard fire, Shawn sprinted away.
"Shawn takes the lead!" Chris announced.
By this point, Sugar, Gwen, and Cody all entered the third obstacle. Appearing much winded, Sugar stopped to catch her breath while Gwen and Cody got ahead of her.
"This might be the most I've ran since that county mud run," Sugar complained, and then straightened up when her stomach began to gurgle ominously. "Ooh, that cabbage bus is almost at the end of the tunnel." Doing her best to ignore her body's exhaustion, the pageant queen pushed herself to keep moving.
Ahead of her, Gwen and Cody ducked behind a bush just in time for leeches to go zipping past.
"We're almost there," Gwen said as she and her geek of an alliance partner peered over the bush.
"And Sugar is behind us," Cody pointed out. "Perfect! All we need to do is make sure she doesn't win, try to convince Jasmine and Shawn to vote with us, and she's done for."
"What about Alejandro? I'm pretty sure he's against her too," brought up Gwen.
Cody rolled his eyes. "Forget Alejandro. The guy deluded Sierra into thinking she and I were married, and nearly fed me to sharks. I don't want anything to do with the guy."
"But he would be an easy vote to get rid of Sugar."
"Hey, do you want to team up with the same guy who played everyone? Or, do you want to team up with people you can actually trust?"
Unsure of how to respond to that, Gwen instead settled for moving forward with the challenge and sorting the vote out later. Cody moved to follow, but his pack caught onto a protruding bush branch. "Ugh, dumb backpack. Knowing Chris, it's just a bunch of bricks." Slipping his arms out of the shoulder straps, Cody hurried to catch up with Gwen. "Penalty my butt."
Jasmine poked her head up from behind a rock, and ducked as a leech flew in her direction. She turned to face Shawn, who was still beside her. "You were on Sugar's team last year. Do you think Alejandro could possibly be right about her?"
Shawn shrugged vaguely. "I'm not sure, to be honest. Outside of challenges, I pretty much stayed away from everyone. I think he's just trying to bluff us to draw attention away from himself. He knows we all know what he's really like."
Rather than give a verbal reply, Jasmine crossed her arms and scrunched her brow in thought.
"Eheehee," Sugar guffawed, running from one cover of rock to another. "I think I'm in the lead. Hello, final five!" As she passed a bush, her pack got caught similarly to Cody's. "Aw horse waffles. Ack!" A leech hit her forehead. "Hey, don't smudge the makeup!" More leeches hit her, making her flinch and scream several more times.
Alejandro still had one or two leeches on his face, but he apparently recovered enough to make some progress through the zone. That was where Gwen found him.
"Alejandro, we need to talk- whoa," Gwen began to say then cringed once she saw the leeches still stuck to him. "You've got a few… here…" She awkwardly motioned with her hand to her face.
Looking where she indicated, Alejandro removed the leeches. "What do you want?" he asked rather icily.
"Listen, I know you and Sugar have been butting heads, and up until now I didn't care," the loner stated.
"I see. What makes you suddenly invested in my feud?" Alejandro adopted a disinterested expression, though his words indicated otherwise.
Gwen jabbed a finger back where she left Cody. "I found out from Cody that she was the one that stole my diary days ago. I want payback." Emphasizing her point, she pounded a fist into an open palm. "He and I are going to vote her out, and since you're definitely against Sugar, I propose we team up just this once to get rid of someone we both hate."
"Uniting against a common enemy, hm? I can work with that." A devious smile formed on the charmer's face.
"Don't let your head get too inflated," Gwen warned with a stern point of her finger. "Once Sugar is out, you're next on our list."
"As are the both of you on mine," Alejandro replied, still smiling. "Consider us in agreement."
As Gwen grinned at the prospect of getting another vote against Sugar, the camera panned over to show Cody gasping at the sight of his alliance partner conspiring with one of his most-despised enemies.
(Confessional- Cody)
"Gwen, no! Didn't I just tell you not to do that?" Cody exclaimed in the outhouse, throwing his arms wide.
Still struggling at the bush, Sugar caught sight of Jasmine and Shawn passing her. With newfound resolve, she finally unhooked herself from the bush and swiped off all the leeches to pursue them.
"The coast is clear! Let's run for it!" Shawn said quickly as they jogged past, only for the pair of adventurers to swiftly come to a halt. "Whoa!"
The pair had come to a cliff, their footwork sending a few small rocks tumbling off the edge and into the ravine of water below. They could hear the rocks plunking into the water, and they glanced up to see a pair of ziplines above them and Chris on the other side with a checkered finish line.
"Told ya you were in for a real treat," Chris teased through his megaphone before reverting back into his colonel persona. "This is it, maggots! The final obstacle! All you have to do is get to where I'm standing, alive."
"How are we supposed to do that?" Shawn asked incredulously, raising his voice so Chris could hear him across the distance.
"Hellooo," Chris drawled out as if it were obvious, and pointed at his back. "Backpacks?"
Taking the hint, Jasmine and Shawn removed their packs from their shoulders, and opened them up on the ground. When they reached inside, they found helmets and harnesses.
"Ziplining! That's how we're supposed to get across," Jasmine realized with a grin.
"Ziplining?" Sugar repeated in outrage, and the pair turned to see she had arrived at the edge of the Duck and Cover zone. "Being a pageant winner and all, I have lots of talents. But I don't have a talent for that!"
Jasmine smirked at her. "I guess we don't have to worry about losing to you then." Taking her helmet in hand, she began to buckle it around her head.
Scowling at the remark, Sugar worked quickly to get ready before the explorers did. To her dismay, Shawn had gotten ready first.
"See you guys on the other side!" Shawn hooked his harness onto the zipline, and took a running jump off the cliff.
Jasmine sighed blissfully as she approached the line. "That boy sure is something." Before she could hook up, Sugar rushed over and shoved her aside. "Hey!"
"You moved too slow, and I gotta win this thing." Sugar copied Shawn's actions, including the line he took, and took off down the line at a faster pace due to her heavier weight. The camera panned to Shawn, and showed Sugar was quickly catching up to him.
Frowning, Jasmine hooked herself onto the line and followed. Right after she left, Alejandro, Gwen, and Cody all arrived on the scene.
"Wait, we actually needed the backpacks?" Cody checked, surprised to find out that they weren't dead weight like he thought.
"Told you there would be a penalty, bro!" Chris answered loudly.
Annoyed, Gwen whirled around to shoot a look at the geek, who smiled sheepishly. "Cody!"
(Confessional- Cody)
"How was I supposed to know that we were going to end up needing them?" Cody attempted to defend. "I thought Chris just saddled us with them because Shawn couldn't keep his mouth shut."
"Don't look into this too deeply," Gwen warned Cody when she let Cody hitch a ride across with her. Alejandro made the jump before them, but Cody's added weight allowed the pair to match pace with him.
"The race for last starts as the race for first is about to end," Chris announced as he stood by the finish line. "Shawn looks unbeatable, but wait!" Shawn was shown cruising along the line, but Sugar appeared moments later, matching his speed. She caught up to him so closely that she accidentally kicked his head.
"Ow!" Shawn put his free hand to his head, looking back at her with a frown. "Watch your feet!"
"Not my fault you're going too slow!" Sugar shot back as she got close enough to be practically on top of him. The pair slowed down, and they looked up to see that their harnesses had gotten tangled up in each other. "Oh great… this is all your fault."
"My fault? You're the one who didn't go on the other line like a normal person! Why didn't you go with that one?" Shawn accused.
"I figured this was the faster one. I mean, that's why you took it, wasn't it?"
Shawn stared at her in disbelief. "How does that even make sense? Neither line is faster than the other."
"I don't know. I've never been ziplining before!"
Their combined weight was too much for the lines, and they snapped. As they began to scream and fall, Jasmine came up behind them on the other line and shot a hand out to grab Shawn by an arm.
"Gotcha!" She exclaimed proudly.
"Thanks!" The conspiracy nut shot her a grateful smile.
"Nooo!" Sugar cried out, falling into the river below.
"Jasmine makes a last-second save," Chris declared right as Jasmine crossed the finish line with Shawn in hand. "while winning immunity!"
Down in the river with makeup running down her cheeks, Sugar smacked a fist against the water in frustration.
(Confessional- Sugar)
"This close! This close! And more of my makeup got ruined too!" Sugar complained in the outhouse. Huffing, she crossed her arms over her chest. "Hopefully those chicken-for-brains are more focused on getting rid of Al, than they are on getting rid of me."
(Confessional- Jasmine)
"Sugar isn't the most… pleasant person to be around, all things including today considered," Jasmine admitted. "But, she's still not worse than Alejandro. We can take her another time, but Alejandro? That wily devil needs to be eliminated, pronto."
Jasmine and Shawn were standing beside Chris at the finish line, out of their gear, and waiting for the rest of the contestants still running the challenge to finish. Alejandro had a respectable third place, followed by Gwen and Cody, the two of them screaming as they arrived and colliding in an off-screen crash that made Jasmine and Shawn wince.
Chris chuckled at Gwen and Cody's pain. "Bonus ouchies! You can count your bruises while I count the elimination votes tonight. Jasmine's safe from the Flush of Shame, so who's going home I wonder?" He playfully thought out loud.
The camera zoomed in on Jasmine and Shawn sharing a nervous look, to Sugar lurking in the water, to Alejandro in the process of removing his gear, and finally to Gwen and Cody laying on the ground in pain. The show faded to commercial on the sight of the latter two groaning out their agony.
When the show returned, it was still late afternoon. Shawn and Jasmine were in the woods, sitting on a picnic blanket with their baskets from that morning between them. The pair sat contently, sorting through their findings.
After a moment, Shawn looked up at Jasmine. "So, here we are… on a picnic blanket… this isn't like some sort of date neither of us realized was a date, is it?"
"What?" Jasmine met his gaze, equally flustered and waving a hand in dismissal. "Oh gosh no. It's not counted as a date if neither of us planned for it to be."
"Oh." Shawn looked down at his spread, quickly looking up at Jasmine before returning his attention to his collection. "Good." He tossed a berry in his mouth.
Before the air could get any more awkward, Cody walked onto the scene. "Hey, guys. Listen, about tonight…" He started off slowly, unsure if he was interrupting something.
Both explorers glanced up at the geek, curious about what he was coming to them for.
In a flash cut, night had come and the bonfire ceremony was underway.
"You guys are really living up to the title of the show. I'm seeing a lot of drama around the camp tonight," Chris commented.
To prove his point, Gwen was shown leering at Sugar, who scowled at Alejandro, who in turn sent a serious stare at Shawn, who shared a hesitant glance with Jasmine, who sent a questioning look at Cody, who glared at someone the camera didn't indicate.
Holding up the photos used for votes, Chris looked them over. "I've tallied the votes, and the person taking the Flush of Shame is…"
Gwen's pale hand curled into a fist.
Sugar looked down as her stomach rumbled uncomfortably.
Alejandro grasped his family necklace.
Shawn looked back and forth, his frantic nature breaking through.
Jasmine, as the only one immune from the vote, merely pursed her lips.
Cody gripped his jeans tight in anticipation.
"… Alejandro, you're Ale-done-dro!" Chris showed the photos, revealing a photo of Alejandro with a red X over it.
Rather than make a big show of shock, Alejandro merely turned to face Jasmine and Shawn. "So, you two decided not to heed my advice."
"Sorry," Jasmine apologized without meaning much of it. "We just decided you were too much of a risk to keep around."
Shawn nodded his head in agreement. "Yeah, even after Cody told us what Sugar did, we figured we'd have another chance next time."
Alejandro shifted his gaze over to Sugar, who mockingly blew him a kiss. He didn't even suppress the shudder this time. "Or, you may have made a grave mistake that cost you this game. Sleep on that." With nothing else to say, he made his way down to the Flush of Shame.
"Bye, Al! Enjoy the ride!" Sugar happily waved as he exited.
"Don't call me 'Al'!" Alejandro shouted back, making everyone flinch at his volume.
"Okay, while Alejandro gets ready to depart," Chris continued the ceremony, "Jasmine, as winner, you get to pick a friend to bunk with Cody in the spa hotel."
"I pick Gwen," Jasmine declared, looking at the loner. "Considering what I've heard today, she probably shouldn't bunk in the same room as Sugar." She thought for a moment. "Actually, do I get to pick who does Boney Island too? Because I pick Sugar for that."
Sugar gaped at her. "What? What did I do?"
Gwen stood from her seat, pointing at the pageant queen. "You stole my diary, that's what! I would be less mad if you stole something else of mine, but my diary? That's crossing a line! I put my innermost thoughts and feelings in there!"
Sugar shrugged in defense. "Don't get all huffy. I didn't even read the darn thing. I just wanted to make you mad. It was all part of the game."
"I don't care if you didn't read it. The point is I draw the line at people taking certain things that belong to me, and you crossed it. Whatever the next challenge is, you better hope that you win it because you're following Alejandro down that toilet. Ugh!" Stomping her foot, Gwen stomped off towards the cabins.
"Hey, I didn't finish the ceremony yet!" Chris shouted after her. Annoyed, Chris answered Jasmine's question prior to Gwen's outburst. "Before that rude exit, I was going to say that you did have the power to pick someone to go to Boney Island, and I guess you already picked so… Sugar, wait for Chef. Everyone else, head back to the cabins."
(Confessional- Cody)
"I really tried to convince Jasmine and Shawn to vote out Sugar instead of Alejandro, but they seemed to have made up their minds." Sighing, Cody added, "Sorry Gwen, I had to vote him out."
(Confessional- Sugar)
"What a load of hogwash," Sugar huffed. "It ain't my fault she didn't figure me out sooner." Her stomach gurgled again, and she put her hands to it. "Uh oh, here comes that big ol' rope of licorice."
The footage cut to the outside of the Confession Cam, where a baby deer and a few birds were wandering around it. Suddenly, a loud fart rang out from the outhouse, accompanied by a green cloud leaking out through the windows. The baby deer's ears flattened against its head, and it pranced away in a hurry while the little birds dropped unconsciously onto the ground. A skunk poked its head into view from behind a tree, and even it looked ready to puke, ducking behind the tree again.
Alejandro was now in the giant toilet.
"You all have made a big mistake," he warned even though nobody came down to see him off except Chris. "You may know what Sugar is like now, but she will still give you more trouble than you think. At least with me, you'd know how strong of an opponent you have!"
Chris raised a hand to cover up a yawn, but did so unsuccessfully. "Aw, go home and reunite with your girlfriend already." Lifting his remote, he activated the flush.
Alejandro let out a scream as he spun down the drain and out of sight.
"That's another player down, and only five remain. How will Sugar survive with everyone out to get her? Will Gwen cool down from the big shock? And will Jasmine and Shawn spit out their feelings for each other? You'll just have to find out when the final five become the fortunate four next time right here on Total Drama All-Stars!" Chris concluded.
(cue end credits)
(Bonus Clip)
Much like Duncan, Alejandro was tossed ashore by a tide and the water receded, revealing his soaked form.
"Ugh, dios mio," Alejandro muttered irritably, then he saw a pair of feet enter his vision. The charmer looked up.
"Looks like the eel finally washed up," a snarky voice spoke. The viewpoint changed to show the face of none other than Noah. "I guess the others finally decided to hang you out to dry, eh Al?"
His eye twitching, Alejandro got up. "You do not have the right to call me that."
"We're standing on American soil, pal. Freedom of speech." Noah stated smugly, arms folded over his chest.
Before Alejandro could retort, a pair of tanned hands grabbed at his face and the handsome visage of Justin pulled himself into frame so he could get a close look at the newest eliminated camper.
"Ah man, and here I thought you being stuck in that robot suit would leave you paler than me, and maybe with a few unattractive scars," remarked Justin, who sounded disappointed that Alejandro looked well.
Noah rolled his eyes. "Way to have your priorities straight, anti-me."
His irritation growing, Alejandro smacked the model's hands away from his face. "To what do I owe the presence of you fools?"
"Hey, it was either some of us come get you, or you could try and find your way back to Canada yourself."
"Wait. American soil? Find my way back to Canada? Where are we?" Alejandro looked around, only for his questioning glance to fall flat into annoyance. "I remember this place." The footage zoomed out to show the three young men standing on a tropical beach with a sunset in the background.
"Yeah, we're in Hawaii. Isn't it great? I was born here, and lived here up until I moved to Canada for my modeling." Justin said, oblivious to Alejandro's displeasure with the location. "While we waited for you to show up, we visited some of my family. It's really great to be home."
"I'm just glad that the rest of your family has more brain cells than you do," quipped Noah. He motioned to the two more attractive men. "Now that we've found Eelejandro, let's get off this tourist trap. With the finale coming up fast, we need to start getting ready."
"Ready? For what?" Alejandro asked.
"The future Mrs. Burromuerto can tell you when we get back." Noah began to walk away.
"Why can't you tell me now?" The charmer further pressed as he and Justin proceeded to follow him.
"Two reasons- first, I don't like you. Second, I only came to pick you up so I could enjoy your defeat up close."
Alejandro looked to Justin, his question silently communicated to the model. Justin shrugged in response. "Don't ask me. I just came to see if you've lost any attractiveness so I could win back some of my female fans you stole. I have no idea about half the stuff that's going on. All I know this originally started out as a rescue mission so Noah and his friends could go retrieve Owen, and it grew from there when everyone heard what he was up to."
Looking back and forth between his rescuers, Alejandro sighed. "Some welcoming committee." The boys finally walked out of frame, and the clip faded to black.
Alejandro- 6th
Topher- 7th
Sierra- 8th
Sammy- 9th
Duncan- 10th
Heather- 11th
Beardo- 12th
Scarlett- 13th
Owen- 14th
And the other half of the Alejandro/Topher alliance falls. Alejandro tried his best to work independently, but his attempts were in vain. Originally, he and Topher had swapped eliminations so Topher would've been eliminated here instead, but then I realized with Alejandro being a more dangerous player, Sugar would be able to slip by this elimination easier. Even though Sugar's schemes have been outed, I figured that players like Jasmine and Shawn would be confident enough in their skill to take care of her at a later point while Alejandro would be more difficult. Also, if Topher had been in Alejandro's place, he would've been the one to mouth off at the beginning of the challenge and get everyone to wear backpacks, fully mirroring both occasions in canon where Scott filled the role.
Going into this, I thought it would be disgustingly amusing for Sugar to win the challenge by using gas from the cabbage and the licorice to get a speed boost to pass Shawn, but then I realized that would make Alejandro's elimination a foregone conclusion. After that, I figured that if you're going to have characters racing over a ravine, at least one of them has to fall in. Hence the outcome we got. Cody receiving the hotel reward from Jasmine has paid off in the form of Sugar ultimately being exposed as the true thief of Gwen's diary, and Gwen learned that her roommate has been lying to her the whole time.
Aside from being another location where a race occurred, Hawaii is an important location connected to Alejandro's character. It's where he reached the final two, where he and Heather shared their first kiss, and where karma paid him in full by letting him get burned by lava. I chose Noah to be one of his rescuers because the leader of this little project should appear sometime, and because it was after Noah, one of the show's few anchors of sanity, left World Tour that the season started to get crazy with Ezekiel having turned feral, the Gwuncan triangle playing out, Blaineley joining the game, and Alejandro being burned and put in the Drama Machine. Justin was chosen as the second person to retrieve Alejandro because the character is canonically Hawaiian, he's Noah's 'opposite self', and could be called a beta Alejandro. Plus, as the two 'handsome' guys on the show, we never got a chance to see Alejandro and Justin interact.
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